Research Catalog

Title

Music, politics, and violence / edited by Susan Fast and Kip Pegley.

Publication

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fast, Susan
• Pegley, Kip.

Description

viii, 308 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Music and violence have been linked since antiquity in ritual, myth, and art. Considered together, they raise fundamental questions about creativity, discourse, and music's role in society. The essays in this collection investigate a wealth of issues surrounding music and violence - issues that cross political boundaries, time periods, and media - and provide cross-cultural case studies of musical practices ranging from large-scale events to regionally specific histories. Following the editors' substantive introduction, which lays the groundwork for conceptualizing new ways of thinking about music as it relates to violence, three broad themes are followed: the first set of essays examines how music participates in both overt and covert forms of violence; the second section explores violence and reconciliation; and the third addresses healing, post-memorials, and memory. This book affords space to look at music as an active agent rather than as a passive art, and to explore how music and violence are closely - and often uncomfortably - entwined. -- Adapted from publisher's description.

Series Statement

Music/culture

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Music and violence
• Music and war

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-293) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A healing draft for a sick people / Nicholas Attfield -- The afterlife of Neda Ukraden / Catherine Baker -- Between the lines / Christina Baade -- The changing sounds of war / James Deaville -- Revivals and new arrivals / David A. McDonald -- Pax mevlana / Victor A. Vicente -- Choreographing (against) coup culture / Kevin C. Miller -- Complementary discourses of truth and memory / Jonathan Ritter -- National identity after national socialism / Amy Lynn Wlodarski.

ISBN

• 9780819573377 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 081957337X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780819573384 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0819573388 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780819573391 (ebook)
• 0819573396 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2012020964

OCLC

• 785870508
• SCSB-12256701

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library